Liberal MP and former research scientist Dennis Jensen 'really concerned about future of science' in Australia

One of the very few qualified scientists in Federal parliament, the West Australian Liberal Dr Dennis Jensen, has criticised the government's decision to have no minister for Science and to cut funding to key scientific organisations. Dr Jensen, speaking in parliament yesterday, asked how the government's policy could be coherent when it involved on the one hand setting up a $20bn medical research fund, while cutting other research areas. He speaks to Marius Benson.